The term gender identity disorder has been eliminated from the new edition of the American Psychiatric Associations official guide to classifying mental illnesses, known as the DSM-5.

Whereas previously a man who self-identified as a woman (or vice versa) could have been classified as mentally ill, now the DSM-5 uses the term gender dysphoria, which means it is only a mental illness if youre troubled by this self-identification. Elated activists in the LGBT community had lobbied the APA for the change for years.

And this month in Massachusetts, students, parents and teachers are reacting with concern to a recent policy document from state Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester stating that public schools should allow students to choose which bathrooms and locker rooms they use on the basis of their gender self-identification, not their anatomy.

The move follows on the heels of a federal judges order last September that Massachusetts provide a sex change operation to a male prison inmate.

The United Nations, too, weighed in on the issue recently, when a General Assembly anti-discrimination resolution included gender identity on the same level as race, creed, religion and sexual orientation.

But the Catholic Church continues to hold up a very different understanding of the permanence of an individuals biological sexual identity.

You can bet the farm on it, Mark. God have mercy on us. And I blame the Church. Yes, every single one of us who claims to profess Christ. We have allowed all of us to creep in. I know many people have been watchmen and have been the voices crying in the wilderness, but there just were not enough of us. Let’s face it, when the Catholics vote Obama over their church’s positions on abortion and gay marriage, there is something really rotten in the pews. And I’m not going to single out the Catholic Church. The Protestant churches have been going downhill for years as well...focusing on entertainment and not scripture.

Bestiality will never be considered normal because the animal cannot consent. PETA would have a "cow".

According to WIkipedia, pedophiliia is considered "a psychiatric disorder in persons 16 years of age or older typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest toward prepubescent children (generally age 11 years or younger, though specific diagnosis criteria for the disorder extends the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13)."

In most states the age of consent is 16, although there are a few that go as low as 14. If that number gets much lower, I could see some blurring of the lines.

Oh, and as to the original - transgendered persons.......no matter what the psychiatric association says.....they aren't normal.

You can bet the farm on it, Mark. God have mercy on us. And I blame the Church. Yes, every single one of us who claims to profess Christ. We have allowed all of us to creep in. I know many people have been watchmen and have been the voices crying in the wilderness, but there just were not enough of us. Lets face it, when the Catholics vote Obama over their churchs positions on abortion and gay marriage, there is something really rotten in the pews. And Im not going to single out the Catholic Church. The Protestant churches have been going downhill for years as well...focusing on entertainment and not scripture.

Brutally honest, and very true!

They key issue is the horrendous failure of proper formation within the Church in the last 50 years. Rome was taken over by hostile liberals in the 60's with the advent of Vatican II, and since then has been on a speeding train headed for the spiritual cliff. Proper Catholic formation has been substituted and obliterated into "smiley face pop psychology", and people (as well as clergy) have left the Church in droves since then.

In speaking with my Protestant friends who try to teach Sunday school, they too lament of the poor understanding of their students and children, of anything close to traditional Christian teachings in the last several decades . There has been an underlying malignancy (and this is not just US based) that has undermined Christian society and replaced it with underlying secularism for fear of "not to offend" those who are not Christian. As you stated PP, there have been those few of us who have had the guts to speak up against it, but the rest have either no will, or the understanding of their own faith to defend it in the first place.

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posted on 03/26/2013 7:16:42 PM PDT
by kstewskis
("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"..... Fr. A. Saenz)

“Geez. So I guess removing pedophilia and bestiality from the list of paraphilias is next.”

Yes, you get it, perversions and acts against God’s laws can be erased by a word, dysphoria. Inter species coitus dysphoria or young person coitus dysphoria will be how nasty acts will be dismissed as no big deal.

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posted on 03/26/2013 8:08:33 PM PDT
by RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)

From what I’ve seen, in the evangelical world it’s mostly Southern Baptists, similar-minded bible churches, and charismatic groups that have been hanging on hard to biblical orthodoxy (even though not always agreeing on the reading of everything in the bible). The rest is going to hades in a hand basket whether slowly or quickly.

On the other hand, methinks Catholics presume too much on the manifest destiny of Christianity in the world, at least this present world. Christianity may not prevail in many countries, and it’s not because of church’s failure to preach the gospel or exercise some dominant influence, it’s because of unsaved people’s choice to reject.

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posted on 03/26/2013 9:53:37 PM PDT
by HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)

So if you have a delusion about who you are but “don’t suffer from it” the psychiatric establishment will not consider you to have a mental illness? Somebody who thinks they are Napoleon and enjoys it is perfectly mentally healthy?

Psychiatrists aren’t defending themselves well against accusations of pseudoscience.

I know some "catholics" who see nothing wrong with Obama and his Marxism. I got into a "discussion" last year with one of these people, and that person started ranting that these men, meaning the church hierarchy, need to get their affairs in order before they start telling women what to do with their bodies.

I confess that the whole concept of transgender is baffling to me. If I understand correctly, according the modern thought what one wears, what one does with one’s body, who one has sex with, etc. are all now normal. With that background, exactly what does it mean to be transgendered? How can one view himself as either male or female, if the definitions of those things are no longer valid? What does it mean to view oneself as being of another gender?

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